Accident injures 3, closes 105

Sue Thackeray

Published 6:00 pm, Friday, March 12, 2004

Shree Dollins, 18, was pulling out of her driveway on the north side of Texas 105 near Penny Road when she allegedly failed to yield the right of way to a westbound vehicle, according to DPS Kenneth Lee.

The 1994 Mazda 626 struck Dollins' Ranger in the driver's side near where the cab and the bed of the truck meet.

"She was lucky is wasn't a larger vehicle that hit her," Lee said of Dollins. "That car slid in underneath the truck. Had it been a pickup truck or something bigger, this would have been worse."

The impact of the collision ripped the truck's drive shaft out from under it. The drive shaft was sitting about five feet from where the truck came to rest.

Dollins, and the driver of the Mazda, Rogelio Trevino, 21, and his front-seat passenger, Jamie Trevino, both of Daisetta, were all transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston by air ambulance. Both SkyMed and LifeFlight responded to the scene.

Their conditions were not available Friday evening from the hospital. Lee said paramedics on the scene told him the Trevinos had been seriously injured.

Neither Dollins nor the Trevinos were believed to be wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash, Lee said.

Three other people sitting in the back seat of the Mazda were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries, Lee said.

Texas 105 was closed for more than two hours in both directions while the accident was cleaned up and troopers investigated the incident.

Lee said charges may be filed, pending the outcome of the investigation.